[virre89]

First of all,

This has nothing to do with the game itself, if your a fan and love sims and was thinking of buying it, you're rather stuiped if something like a protection feature makes you boycott it. There is really only one logical excuse for being against this and that is the people whom for any reason can't/don't have a broad band connection, i total understand your frustration.

As for people that have a broad band connection , what are you whining about?
The simulation market is thin enough, if you love sims and the theaters like this then support them and buy their games.

Todays evolution of the Internet is no secret, the majority has broadband even if many don't play games online or even go online in their games it's fair enough to say a lot of people have the ability to. As we all know the Internet can be used for plenty more than gaming....

By saying this will affect sales on a 50-70% scale i'd say you're way off your head, this online community that hangs on sites like this is just a small amount of the fans that actually buys it, the majority as with most games comes with the buyers that you never see online.

So why doesn't the majority play online/go online?... well most certainly the main reason ain't that they don't have a connection, they might just not be interested in playing online or lack common sense on how to do it or just not being hardcore gamers etc etc many reasons..

As an simple example:
I Know a lot of friends that only use Internet for surfing etc etc, even tho they own broad band , and yes the play games a lot but not in clans and they don't hang with the online communities, in other words a typical average customer/gamer.

I am rather sure this won't effect the sales at all especially not in stores, it's still no secret that a lot of games today require an online stream from the master servers to even work. Anyway everyone has all right in the world to make up their own decision im not claiming otherwise , but if you decide not to buy it, then stand by your choice and for god sake do not download it illegally.. that will only destroy the industry even more.